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You Again

Chapter Five

Hermione was startled out of her dreams by the loud beeping noises coming from her alarm clock. 'ugh' she thought to herself as she pulled up on her arms and look at the clock, it read 7:00. She thought as to why her clock went off so early but then she remembered that she didn't take a shower last night after she came home from Viktor's, she went straight to bed. She got up yawning, grabbed her clothes for the day and went to take a shower. After she got out she decided that she would try to go to a book shop on her lunch break to find Teodora her own copy of Goodnight Moon, as the one Hermione had was very special to her.

Before she stepped into her office she went to see Remus Lupin, her boss. She knocked on the door and waited for him to say come in. Once she heard him speak she walked inside and took in his figure, she remembered how thin and old he had looked when she first saw him in her third year. Now, he still had speckled grey and brown hair but he seemed a more healthy weight and much younger by his facial features.

"Hello Remus," she stated as she walked in and saw him rising from his desk.

"Hey Hermione! How are you? Did you have fun this weekend? Me and Tonks are having another kid." He replied and moved behind the desk to stand close to her.

"Oh Merlin, Remus congratulations! I'm so happy for you two, how does Teddy feel?" Hermione said excitedly as she gave him a hug.

Remus ran a hand through his hair and replied with a huge smile "thank you, he is really excited. He has already talked about the stuff he wants to do with the baby when she is here." He suddenly looked at her wide-eyed "shit umm...don't say anything it was suppose to be a surprise, we were getting together at Molly's this weekend to tell everyone."

Hermione placed a hand over her heart laughing and said "don't worry, your secret is safe with me."

Remus smiled and said "what can I do for you this morning?"

Hermione suddenly remembered why she was there and looked nervous, "I need to go to a muggle bookstore today and get a book for my friends daughter, could I take a long lunch to go get it?"

Remus laughed "of course Hermione, you don't need to ask." "Wait is this for Viktor?" He asked as he raised his eyebrows.

Hermione scoffed and replied "what do you mean?"

"well I know he has a kid, about 2 I think." He stated as he went to sit back in his chair.

Hermione sat down in the seat across from him and just stared at him unable to speak, "what?" she finally uttered "how do you know?"

Remus signed some papers before speaking, "It was all over the newspapers in Bulgaria, when his wife, I think, passed."

"oh," Hermione mumbled "I didn't know that she was his wife, he just called her his daughter's mother."

Remus reached over and grabbed her hand "What is going on?" Hermione was lost in thought and didn't hear his question,

"what?" she asked as the door opened behind her and knocked her out of her thoughts.

"Hello love." Tonks said as she opened the door, noticing someone was in the chair she said "oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were in a meeting your secretary said nothing."

Remus walked over to greet his wife and whipped up another chair for her, "It is only Hermione, she came in to talk."

Tonks gave Hermione a quick but tight hug, well as tight as she could with her big belly. She was cut off by Hermione exclaiming "wow! Tonks look at your belly, you look gorgeous. Pregnancy suits you."

Tonks smiled at Hermione and replied back "thank you, i feel like i am a bit big this time around."

"Oh nonsense, it is your second child i read that you tend to show sooner and can be larger with your second." Once Hermione had realized what she said she quickly blushed and looked at the floor.

Remus and Tonks shared a look, they knew that Hermione had wanted to start a family with Ron but war had made it impossible. They also knew that she would have done as much research as she could when they talked about it.

Tonks just grabbed Hermione's hands "thank you, dear. I'm sure I am just freaking out. Well I just wanted to see if you can take a late lunch, I have a healer's appointment today."

"What time?" Remus asked as he stood by her chair, "I know Hermione wanted a long lunch, I hope we can work around that."

They had pretended to ignore Hermione's rapid blinking. Hermione wiped the few tears that had fallen from her eyes, stood up, and smiled, "no, I can just take an early lunch if that is okay with you Remus. I don't want you to miss an appointment."

"Thank you Hermione, the appointment is at 1."

Hermione walked over to the door and replied "I have to get to work, congratulations again, I will let you know when I take my lunch, thanks."

Hermione walked as quickly as she could without running to her office, when she got there she locked the door and put a silencing charm up. The tears started to pour as soon as she shut the door, bringing back the memories of her past.

Hermione was holding the muggle pregnancy stick in her and Ron's bathroom. The test had a plus sign, she was not sure on how to feel, they had not decided on having children yet. She knew he wanted a big family but she didn't know when. While she waited for Ron to come home from work she became more excited to be a mother. An hour after she got the positive test Ron came out of the fireplace,

'Mione? Are you here? I told Mum we would come by.'

Hermione had been in the bathroom the whole time, sitting on the toilet daydreaming about her red-haired baby. She heard her name being called again, 'oh in here Ron. I have some news.'

Ron pondered what she would want to tell him while she was in the bathroom, confused he walked to the door and saw her sitting there, still in work clothes.

'Mione what are you doing? I didn't ask you but we usually don't do anything on Thursday nights,' Ron had started to walk away from her and get some clean clothes.

'Ron? Ron?' Hermione called after him, 'Ronald Bilius Weasley! Stop moving and listen to me, what I have to say is bloody important! I'm pregnant with your child!' Hermione bellowed watching him fling clothes around the room.

Ron stopped dead in his tracks and whipped around to look at her. 'Umm...what? How did this happen?' Ron slowly uttered after staring at her for 5 minutes.

Hermione almost yelled 'what do you mean how did this happen? It happens when two people have sex.'

'Merlin, Moine I know that, I just mean we aren't ready for children at all. You have your job and I'm still living my life.'

Hermione calmed herself down from the hysterics that were building in her chest when she realized that Ron didn't want a child. She quickly got ready on a blur and started to walk out the door,

'No,' she said quietly and turned around and marched up to Ron, 'how dare you, i will be having this child you can either be here or not. Don't say a word to anyone until I go to the doctors. I won't force you to be here, it's all up to you.' She wiped the tears that were falling from her face, checked her reflection in the mirror by the fireplace, and flooed over to the Burrow.

A knocking pulled her out of her thoughts, "It's just me, Remus. Can I come in?" she heard a voice call from outside the door.

Hermione wiped the tears off her face, took down the silencing charm, and called for him to come in. She wasn't worried about Remus seeing her tears as he had been there to help her through the hardest time in her life. Remus opened the door, smiled at her and held out a cup full of hot chocolate.

"I had a feeling you would be needing this, so I popped over to that shop you like and got some."

Hermione tried to smile but the drink reminded her of her parents and that made her start to cry harder than before. Remus quickly threw up a charm and pulled her into a tight hug, not saying anything just waiting until she had finished. After 10 minutes the tears had finally stopped flowing, Hermione grabbed the tissue that Remus had handed her, cleaned up her face from the tears and snot and whispered "thank you."

"Anytime," Remus replied, not letting her go until she pulled away, "So you finish the paperwork that you started yesterday and go home."

Hermione stepped out of his hug and snapped her head up to look at him, "What? What did I do?"

Remus laughed and said "Nothing Hermione, you need a break today, I know you are a few days ahead of your work. Go get the book and then rest."

Hermione said "what about your appointment with Tonks? Who will be in charge while you are gone?"

Remus picked up her hot chocolate and handed it to her, "I will only be gone for the appointment, me and Tonks will come back to the office to eat. We already talked about it. " He added when he saw Hermione open her mouth.

She just shook her head mumbled thanks and sat down to finish her work, checking to make sure that the other workers had filled out the centaurs negotiations form correctly.

Remus took down the charm, went to her door and said "I don't want to see you back here until tomorrow, that is an order."

Hermione saluted him and replied "yes sir."

Hermione left the office with a quick wave to Remus and flooed home. It was a nice day out and since she was just a few miles from the muggle bookstore she had decided to walk there and gather her thoughts. After she bought the book for Teodora she went to a cafe in Diagon Alley for some tea and decided to write a small note in the cover. All the books from her parents had small notes that she treasured, even more with them gone. She had decided to go with what her parents wrote in her Goodnight Moon book. 'Dream big little one', she signed her name, paid for her tea and went off to the owlery to send the book. As she watched the owl fly away she was lost in her thoughts about children and didn't hear her name being called. Only when she felt a hand on her arm did she turn around and see that it was Ron.

"Oh Ron," Hermione gasped, "I'm sorry I was lost in thought. How are you?"

Ron kept his hand on her arm and replied, "I'm fine, I saw you walk in here when I was leaving George's shop. I am going to work for him and I wanted to see what you were doing."

Hermione took a step back to remove his hand on her arm and smiled, "that's wonderful, I bet your mum is happy. I am doing good, I had to send a book off to Teodora and now I'm on the way home."

Ron's face grew in confused as he didn't remember the name "who is Teodora?"

Hermione started to walk towards the opening of the store, wanting to get home and relax in peace, "oh it's Viktor's daughter. She loves the good night moon book, so I sent her one they could read together and I won't have to go over there as often," she replied.

With her back to Ron she failed to notice his eyes darken and a scowl form across his face when she mentioned Viktors name.

Ron cleared his throat and growled softly, "what are you doing talking to him? I thought Saturday was a one time thing? Anyway come eat lunch with me."

Hermione spun around, her long hair smacking Ron in the face, "who I talk to is none of your business and I will not go out with you." she whispered in a deep rumbling voice as she stepped closer to him. Hermione shook her head and walked off, not wanting to argue with him in the middle of the Alley.

When she got home she wanted curl up into a ball, Ron never triggered her memories, no one did but once they started the memories kept coming in full force until she either drowned her sorrows in whiskey or gave herself to dreamless sleep.